Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator has been making some serious waves the last few months.
Back in May, I wrote about the latest results from the D-Zero collaboration, co-discovers of the top quark in the 1990s.

The D-Zero scientists analyzed data from a bunch of proton-anti-proton collisions and found a 1 percent asymmetry in the number of muons produced compared to anti-muons.

That hinted at “a new particle not predicted by the Standard Model” — colorfully dubbed “the toe of god” by Fermilab scientist Joe Lykken.

And now the team is back with even more intriguing results to announce from their subsequent analysis, published on arVix. See, the Standard Model doesn’t fully explain why this asymmetry between matter and antimatter should exist.

Yet, as Fermilab scientist Adam Martin pointed out to BBC News,

“What’s difficult is to have those large effects without damaging anything else we’ve already measured. The Standard Model fits just about every test we’ve thrown at it. To fit in a new effect in one particular place is not easy.”

17 August 2012 910 pm edt

My thoughts:

Key word “asymmetry” in number of muons compared to anti-muons – in the D-Zero discovery of the top quark.

Quote from Jennifer Ouellette’s article, “The Higgs Boson may have five faces.”

QUOTE:
“The concept of the Higgs boson particle is mentioned as the toe of God by Fermilab scientist Joe Lykken.”

Quote from her article:
“there are five different versions, with similar masses but different electric charges.”